What you aspire to on a sitcom is the feeling of live comedy.

I'd sleep under a Vermeer.

I'm a con artist in that I'm an actor. I make people believe something is real when they know perfectly well it isn't.

Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of the theater filled with music

Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving.

Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.

It's a very tough time for the playwright. Broadway has become almost a musical comedy theme park with all these long-running shows.

I learned the most about myself, and you ask what I learned? Well, I learned my strengths and my weaknesses, and it's far more important to learn about your weaknesses than your strengths.

The most exciting acting tends to happen in roles you never thought you could play.

I went to Princeton High School, when I was very serious about being an artist. I was in a theatre family but I didn't want to become an actor.

In animation, there's this exhilarating moment of discovery when you see the film and you say, Oh THAT'S what I was doing.

To live a fantasy is to avoid a life.

Put off thy cares with thy clothes so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.

It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that is purloined.

Chase after the truth like all hell.

I Just Got So Emo That I Just Fell Apart!!

There is no wrong way to have a body.

Rarely do they appear great before their valets. [Fr., Rarement ils sont grands vis-a-vis de leur valets-de-chambre.]

It's the best thing in the world, the most challenging thing in the world, being a parent, and one of the first lessons I learned was to ask for help.

Here's my goal: I want to make a seriously dark show, and not on a network that has ever done that.

The sound of progress is perhaps the sound of plummeting hypotheses.